Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-10-08

The Man Who Ldughs.-"Did YOU
notice, observed member of the Cum
berland city council Thursday after
noon, after having bathed his mouth
in artesian water, said to have come
from Frosthurg, "did you notice that
man who just passed byg If so, you
probably remarked the smile that
mantled his face, leaving his mouth
exposed to the raw east wind, and ex-
posing to view his heart and lungs
Well, that man is a nominee, and he
seems to regard it as the happiest in
cident of the season, and no combina-
ton of circumstances can drive away
that wide, sweeping smile he wears.
He doesn't know exactly what he is
laughing about, and he never makes
an effort to find out. He simply goes
around with his mouth hanging aiar
while a gurgling laugh ripples out,
like water out of a jug. 1t gives me
the heart-ache to contemplate that
man, for his parents are respectable
people and friends of mine. | saw
him at a church revival last evening
and when the minister told how sin
would be punished by eternal torture,
he seemed to regard the prospect as
so funny that he giggled aloud. When
the deacon requested him to be quiet
his mirth overwhelmed him, and he
laughed loud and long. He was run
out of church, but it didn't seem to
sadden him any, for he just leaned
against tree and smiled so copiously
that his mouth Tapped around the tree
twice and got tangled in the branches.
Yes, he is married, but his wife weeps
for the days that will never return.
When she informs him that there is no
bread in the house, that the children
are hungry and the coal house empty,
he laughs as though he had never be-
fore heard of anything so irresistibly
funny. At night, she tells me, he
wraps the drapery of his couch about
him and lies down to pleasant dreams
with smile as long as a wire fence,
and when the day after election comes
he will rise from the wreck and ruin
of defeat and laugh with his usual
fuency. Yes, it's nice day, but a
little chilly in the shade. So longw
More Good Words.-A customer of
the JOURNAL, to whom the paper goes
in consideration of large dealings, de-
murs as follows to its continuance in
that way in letter asking for state
ment of subscription account:
Your advertising rate is very reasonable
and is reduced beyond reason by copy of
the paper being thrown in. So oblige me by
aduing to my advertising bill years SUBJ
scription, resting assured that am of opinion
that nowhere do l get so much for similar
expenditure.
The Queen City Courier pays the
JOURNAL an appreciated compliment,
although we do not like the term,
"boodle" rs a synonym for legitimate
compensation for the exceedingly small
share of county printing we are now
getting:
The Frostburg JOURNAL was sweet sixteen
years old Saturday and signalized the event
by the addition of a new press. We presume
the JOURNAL is one of those independent re-
publican papers that has gobbled up the reg
istrars' printing and the Doodle, which should
have been left in this city, aided the JOURNAL
in its new acquisition. Brother Oder should
have kept the Doodle a little longer before
spending it on new press. The JOURNAL is
a live paper and as healthy-looking as any in
western Maryland. May it live long and get
more Doodle than heretofore
During the great strike of 1882 in
this region Mr.. Charles F. Mayer, pres
ident of the Consolidation coal compa-
ny, raised considerable laugh by Sc
riously speaking of the editor hereof as
"colonel Oder" The incident is re-
called by an item in that model of
careful, reliable journalism, the West
minister (Md.) AdgOeate, which, while
aware, doubtless, that the JOURNAL is
both a paper and individual, appears to
think that it is also "colonel.' This
is a misrepresentation, however, which
may be readily pardoned in view of the
better things said
The Frostburg (Md.) JOURNAL has entered
upon its 18th year. 1t is the spicest journal
on our exchange list. Its editor, Col. j. B.
Oder, wields trenchant pen, and publishes
a good local paper.
Personal-Miss Mary Grose, who
has been quite i'll for several weeks, is
improving.
James l.. Brown, of St. Louis, the
breaking of whose arm at Westernport
recently was noted in these columns,
was in to see the JOURNAL Thursday.
The injured member is doing we'll,
though the fractures are more numer-
Gus and extended than at first appre-
hended. He will be fhe guest of John
Hitchins, his brother-in-law, at the
National Mines, about two weeks yet.
"Deck" Kalbaugh, lately in Hitch
ins Bros store, has gone to Pittsburg
to attend to business in a big round